Inside a Global Phone Spy Tool Monitoring Billions

A wide-spanning investigation by 404 Media reveals more details about a secretive spy tool that can tracks billions of phone profiles through the advertising industry called Patternz. Google has...

Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and...

0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt

Revealed: Israeli cyber firms developed an 'insane' new spyware tool. No defense exists

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The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15

Violent criminals who rob, assault, and shoot targets have found a way to tap into data from credit bureaus.

Thousands of Android APKs use compression trick to thwart analysis

Threat actors increasingly distribute malicious Android APKs (packaged app installers) that resist decompilation using unsupported, unknown, or heavily tweaked compression algorithms.

Dissecting TriangleDB, a Triangulation spyware implant

In researching Operation Triangulation, we set ourselves the goal to retrieve as many parts of the exploitation chain as possible. As of now, we have finished analyzing the spyware implant and are...

From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Adverti...

A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences

A Confession Exposes India’s Secret Hacking Industry

The country has developed a lucrative specialty: cyberattacks for hire.

Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.